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A Little Bit of Chakras Guided Journal: Your Personal Path to Energy Healing
A beautiful guided journal based on the book from the bestselling LITTLE BIT OF series!
Explore the mystical world of chakras with this journal to guide you—and record the results on these pages to see how the energy work enhances your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Expert prompts and activities will show you how to locate your chakras, connect with them, and use them to meditate.
This attractive journal gives you a brand-new way to interact with the spiritually enlightening material in A Little Bit of Chakras. The beautiful design features an elastic band.
Explore the mystical world of chakras with this journal to guide you—and record the results on these pages to see how the energy work enhances your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Expert prompts and activities will show you how to locate your chakras, connect with them, and use them to meditate.
This attractive journal gives you a brand-new way to interact with the spiritually enlightening material in A Little Bit of Chakras. The beautiful design features an elastic band.
192 pages, Paperback
First published April 7, 2020
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Chad Mercree
12 books12 followersChad is the author of The Way of the Psychic Heart and A Little Bit of Buddha. He's working on additional nonfiction projects as well as a fiction series. When he's not writing he makes films, practices martial arts and travels.
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December 3, 2020
A Little Bit of Chakras comes as dual literature, either as an informative pocket guide (part of the “A Little Bit of” spiritual series) or an accompanying journal that lets the reader interact with chakra knowledge through writing. I chose the latter because I wanted to learn about chakras in a tactile and mindful way - not just rotely consuming books but actively figuring out my inner energy. The guided journal is broken out into seven chakra chapters, and each section contains a brief 2-3 page intro to the chakra and 5-6 prompts related to it. I thought learning about chakras was going to be this mystical, clandestine process understood only by enlightened gurus, but I was wrong - it turns out, you only need a few pages of instruction and intentional thinking to get a chakra’s gist.
Before jumping into the review, I wanted to clarify the meaning of a “chakra” - by western definitions, it is a pool of spiritual energy that swirls in specific parts of the body and is associated with certain colors, feelings and attributes. Of course, this “energy” isn’t something a microscope can see; it’s an etheric concept that stretches back to ancient Hindu and Chinese texts. Healers and other spiritual workers can purportedly “read” your energy by tuning in to your chakras and seeing which ones are dull (blocked energy) or vivacious (healthy as a plum). In the Western tradition, the seven chakras, starting from the base of the spine and extending to the head, are the root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third-eye and crown chakras.
I was skeptical when I began thumbing through the Amazon journal; my gaze landed on prompts like “Who is the leader of your life?” and I rolled my eyes - might as well buy myself an inspirational quote 2021 calendar to match it. But the sample of prompts I judged wasn’t representative of the whole population. The deeper I went into the book and pondered questions like “Are you able to express yourself freely? How easy is it for you to communicate thoughts and feelings to others?,” the more I realized how relevant the journal was. Amy and Chad aren’t a silly couple looking to dupe you with spiritual hacks - if you take the teachings seriously, you discover a side of yourself otherwise hidden in the rigmarole of living.
The ratio of teachings to journaling varies with the chakra. For example, the heart chakra chapter had 3 pages of printed information and 21 pages dedicated to journaling - getting to know your energy centers this way, through writing rather than struggling with esoteric texts, is the essence of spirituality. No one ever became truly enlightened by reading about other people’s enlightenment. It’s something you have to labor through on an individual level, and confronting those difficult questions like “What areas of your life diminish the love in your life?” is the first step. Even if spirituality isn’t your thing, A Little Bit of Chakras is fantastic for getting to know your inner self with a critical eye.
Although some prompts were odd (i.e. a sentence about activating the crown chakra was in the third-eye chapter) and belonged on inspirational napkins, the most cringey aspects of spirituality were kept to a minimum. There are dozens of self-discovery journals on the market, but this one has the benefit of learning ancient concepts and applying them.
The final third of the journal is devoted to blank notebook pages where the writer can scrawl, ruminate, meditate and free associate on their chakras or anything else. While the white spaces are daunting, I filled mine with LCW article drafts, daily journal entries and peculiar ideas that popped into my head (i.e. an app that allows cooks to open mini restaurants out of their living rooms, jam recipes & LLC names, etc). The binding on the book might be low grade - the strap broke after a few weeks of bringing it to Precita Park - but it gets the job done. Overall, I’d rate this notebook a 4.5/5 stars on Goodreads; the content is exploratory rather than sappy and encourages independent thinking. As always, you get out what effort you put into exposing your inner self to this little cyan book. At the end, the reader will have a sense of their healthy and not so free-flowing chakras and a firm grasp on what chakras mean holistically. Spirituality shouldn’t be closeted in monasteries or dingy psychic rooms - as Micky Singer wrote,
“You're floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience.”
Before jumping into the review, I wanted to clarify the meaning of a “chakra” - by western definitions, it is a pool of spiritual energy that swirls in specific parts of the body and is associated with certain colors, feelings and attributes. Of course, this “energy” isn’t something a microscope can see; it’s an etheric concept that stretches back to ancient Hindu and Chinese texts. Healers and other spiritual workers can purportedly “read” your energy by tuning in to your chakras and seeing which ones are dull (blocked energy) or vivacious (healthy as a plum). In the Western tradition, the seven chakras, starting from the base of the spine and extending to the head, are the root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third-eye and crown chakras.
I was skeptical when I began thumbing through the Amazon journal; my gaze landed on prompts like “Who is the leader of your life?” and I rolled my eyes - might as well buy myself an inspirational quote 2021 calendar to match it. But the sample of prompts I judged wasn’t representative of the whole population. The deeper I went into the book and pondered questions like “Are you able to express yourself freely? How easy is it for you to communicate thoughts and feelings to others?,” the more I realized how relevant the journal was. Amy and Chad aren’t a silly couple looking to dupe you with spiritual hacks - if you take the teachings seriously, you discover a side of yourself otherwise hidden in the rigmarole of living.
The ratio of teachings to journaling varies with the chakra. For example, the heart chakra chapter had 3 pages of printed information and 21 pages dedicated to journaling - getting to know your energy centers this way, through writing rather than struggling with esoteric texts, is the essence of spirituality. No one ever became truly enlightened by reading about other people’s enlightenment. It’s something you have to labor through on an individual level, and confronting those difficult questions like “What areas of your life diminish the love in your life?” is the first step. Even if spirituality isn’t your thing, A Little Bit of Chakras is fantastic for getting to know your inner self with a critical eye.
Although some prompts were odd (i.e. a sentence about activating the crown chakra was in the third-eye chapter) and belonged on inspirational napkins, the most cringey aspects of spirituality were kept to a minimum. There are dozens of self-discovery journals on the market, but this one has the benefit of learning ancient concepts and applying them.
The final third of the journal is devoted to blank notebook pages where the writer can scrawl, ruminate, meditate and free associate on their chakras or anything else. While the white spaces are daunting, I filled mine with LCW article drafts, daily journal entries and peculiar ideas that popped into my head (i.e. an app that allows cooks to open mini restaurants out of their living rooms, jam recipes & LLC names, etc). The binding on the book might be low grade - the strap broke after a few weeks of bringing it to Precita Park - but it gets the job done. Overall, I’d rate this notebook a 4.5/5 stars on Goodreads; the content is exploratory rather than sappy and encourages independent thinking. As always, you get out what effort you put into exposing your inner self to this little cyan book. At the end, the reader will have a sense of their healthy and not so free-flowing chakras and a firm grasp on what chakras mean holistically. Spirituality shouldn’t be closeted in monasteries or dingy psychic rooms - as Micky Singer wrote,
“You're floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience.”
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